In this tutorial we’re going to look at the Cherry Garden Statements screens on Tapestry. They show, statement by statement, where a child has got to in each assessment period — the Individual View for one child at a time, and the Group View for your whole cohort at a glance. Scores here come from the observations you make (and carry forward from earlier periods), and you can override any statement with your own judgement.
To get there, click Planning & Monitoring in the menu on the left, then select Monitoring from the panel that opens.
On the Monitoring page, select the Cherry Garden tab and find Statements in the Snapshots column — it offers both an Individual View and a Group View, and once you’re on the screen you can flick between the two with the Individual/Group switcher at the top.
The Locked controls you’ll meet later are only visible to managers — other staff can read and override scores, but locking and unlocking is restricted to managers. If you use Cherry Garden Bridging, it has a parallel Statements tool of its own under its tab.
The Individual View shows a child’s statements for one area at a time.
Filtering your view
Use the filters to choose what you’re looking at: the Year and Period (these default to the current term — future periods can’t be selected), the Child, the Area of the framework, and optionally one or more Branches if you’d like to narrow things down.
Reading the grid
The statements appear in a grid: each column is a branch, colour-coded by aspect using the key at the top, and you can scroll horizontally to reach the later branches. Orange coloured bars above the statements show the child’s scores, and they come in three varieties:
- a plain bar — the average calculated from your observations;
- a bar with a small black caret — a score carried through from an earlier term;
- a bar with a pencil — a score someone has manually overridden.
Hover over a caret and Tapestry confirms where the score came from.
Click any bar to see the evidence behind it: a Snapshot Details window lists every contributing observation, with an Average refinement score panel when more than one is involved. Our How Cherry Garden scores are calculated tutorial explains the maths.
Overriding a score
To record your own judgement instead, click the blue tick beneath a statement and choose a refinement. The statement takes your score and gains a pencil icon — it will stay put regardless of later observations. If a statement is already overridden, the tick becomes a cross: click it to hand the score back to Tapestry. Click Save Changes before you leave the page.
Locking and unlocking
Managers will also see a Locked checkbox above the grid (there are no date fields here — unlike the baseline, the Statements screen always covers a real term). Tick it and Save Changes to freeze the child’s scores for the period — across all areas, not just the one on screen. When unlocking, Tapestry asks whether to keep assessments as overrides or use Tapestry’s latest estimates; your own overrides survive either choice.
The Group View turns the same data into a read-only tally for your whole cohort. Switch to it with the Group tab at the top of the page (or straight from the Monitoring page). You can filter by Year, Period, Area and optional Branches, plus the usual children filters (cohort, group, key person, room and so on), and every matching child gets a column.
Each child’s column is split by refinement — here E (emerging), D (developing), and S (secure) — and each cell counts how many times that statement has been assessed at that level. Green rows hold data for that child; red rows are still empty. Clicking a child’s name opens their profile in a new tab, and when there are more children than fit a page, pagination links appear above and below the table.
Click any populated cell to open the same Snapshot Details window you met in the Individual View, filtered to that child and statement.
The Group View is for reading, not editing — there are no tick or override controls, and no PDF export, though you can download the whole table as a CSV. And that’s it! You can now follow a child statement by statement, override where your judgement says otherwise, and sweep the whole cohort in one view.